Definition, Short History of Artificial Intelligence
(AI), Brief Discussion of Major Topics (Expert System, Natural Language
Processing, Speech and Pattern Recognition etc.) of AI. Problem Definition as a
State Space Search, Production System, Control Strategies, Problem
Characteristics.

Overview of Expert System, Design of Rural-Based
Expert System, Selecting a problem for expert system development. The knowledge
Engineering Process, Conceptual models and their role in Knowledge acquisition.

Overview of Expert System, design of Rule-Based
Expert Systems, Selecting a problem for expert system development. The
knowledge Engineering Process, Conceptual models and their role in Knowledge
acquisition.

Procedure calls mechanism and message passing –
example DOS System such as ACCENT O.S. and SODS/O.S. File server and example
systems such as Xerox, Cambridge, Electronic Mail Server and example system such
as Grapevine.

The Project gives an opportunity to the student to
use the methodologies/techniques taugh in several courses in the curriculam.
The topics for the project to be undertaken by the departmen, after
deliberations among the faculty members, shall be notified to the students. The
project is to be carried out under the guidance of a faculty member of the
department. A student should submit 3 copies of dissertation for evaluation at
the end of the semester and present his project as a seminar topic. The
external examiner in consultation with the internal examiner shall carry out
the adjudication, after giving due weightage to the work carried out in the
project, the presentation of the project, and viva voca. The guide/supervisor
will be the internal exminer and external shall be appointed from a panel of
eaminers.